Re: git ability
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brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
- Date
- Feb 13, 2021, 17:25 UTC
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On 2021-02-13 at 13:25:03, PANEL Christian wrote:
> hello, > > does git have the ability to handle a repository on a removable disk?
Yes, this is possible. You should access it from only one operating system at a time.
I also strongly recommend that if you're going to do this across operating systems, you use UDF[0] and not NTFS, FAT, or exFAT for this purpose. Linux can format drives this way for use across OSes.
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> here is the experience I had: > > I have a project that I manage on a removable disk (therefore with a > ".git" directory on it). > > until now I did "commits" and "push" on the server from windows10. > > I made changes to the source and made a "commit" from linux (on the > same computer). Git asked me again for my username (email and user > name): I then thought that these were not stored in the ".git" > directory
These settings, user.name and user.email, _can_ be stored in .git/config, but _usually_ are stored in the user's home directory, which will differ between operating systems. You can use the "git config" tool to set them appropriately if you'd like. I personally sync my dotfiles across machines, which includes .gitconfig, which is an approach many others use as well.
> I then saw a new branch called "linuxcompatibility" appear. > > I would like to understand.
Git doesn't create branches unless requested. It's possible that some other tool on your system did. For example, if you're using a file syncing service (e.g., Dropbox or OneDrive) to sync data, that's definitely not recommended and can cause problems like this. If you're using WSL instead of a true Linux system, that data could also have been created by Windows.
It's also possible that this branch already existed on the server and it may have shown up as a remote tracking branch with "git branch -a", in which case attempting to check it out may have created a local copy.
Without more details or output from a program, it's hard to say what's going on here.
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> I thought to myself that I would then merge the "linuxcompatibility" > branch to the "master" branch and push it all back to the server. > > if that went well with me, on the server the branch > "linuxcompatibility" remained.
If you want to delete a branch on the remote server, you can do this:
git push -d origin linuxcompatibility
If you want to delete a branch locally, you can do this:
git branch -d linuxcompatibility
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format; v2.01 is recommended.
-- brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Houston, Texas, US